Best Features In Minecraft: The Garden Awakens

Summary

• The Pale Garden Biome in Minecraft 1.21 introduces new items like Pale Moss Blocks and Eye Blossoms for a horror-themed experience.
• Technical changes in the update improve gameplay with tweaks like mobs having preferred weapon lists and day/night-sensitive Eye Blossoms.
• The addition of the Creaking mob and Resin Clumps in the update provide unique challenges and building opportunities in Minecraft.

The second major drop of Minecraft 1.21 has crawled into the game with the new Pale Garden Biome, which comes with many new items and a frightening mob. This update has added new things for all kinds of players, from casual survival lovers to creative Redstone masters.

There is something lurking for all ready to awaken when you explore the garden. You may be wondering what were the best things added though? From our nightmares, creeps out which features are the most interesting additions of this horror-themed winter Drop.

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Pale Moss Blocks

Draining Life From The World Around Them

These drained decoration blocks can be found all over the Pale Garden. Pale Hanging Moss is found strung down from Pale Oak Trees, making even less of the area visible. Squishing your sight into nothing more than a mess of white and gray pixels.

Looking at the ground, you will see the Pale Moss Carpets, which climb up other blocks for chilling details. Both of these together create the feeling of a dead Biome that has something hiding behind every vine. These also make various atmospheric sounds and add that extra hint of horror to any environment you create.

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Eye Blossoms

Gaze Into Their Beauty Come Nightfall

These flowers may look unremarkable at first glance, but wait till night, and they will open their petals and reveal a glowing orange core. This open design is identical to the Creaking’s eyes. When in the darkness of a Pale Garden you will see them gazing at you, putting you on edge as to where the Creaking may be.

The most useful part of these is that they can be used as cheap Daylight Sensors in any redstone contraptions. In fact, they actually work better than Daylight Sensors as they do not require an open skylight source to work and are hard coded to change when the time turns to night.

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New Technical Changes

Under The Hood Tweaks, Turned Great Additions

If you’re a casual player, you may overlook these tweaks, but there are some interesting changes. Every update comes with hundreds of internal changes, making custom content easier to craft for the game. These also help everything run smoother and patch out any glitches that could happen or just add nice little features to pre-existing content.

In this Drop, some of the highlights are:

• Mobs now have preferred weapon lists of what they can pick up and use.
• Kittens and puppies now have a collar tha is a mix of the parents’ collar color.
• Popoloca is now a supported language.
• Items can be tinted to different hues using commands.
• Particles can now have a ‘duration’ variable to customize how long they last.
• Suspicious Stew effects have been adjusted for parity across both versions.

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The Creaking Heart

The Heart Of The Garden

The Creaking Heart is the main draw of the Pale Garden being the source of the Creaking Mob. While the Mob is impervious to all the damage, this block is the only way to defeat it. It is also how you collect Resin Clumps, so if you find one of these, it will have a ton of value for you. The best part is, if you use a Silk Touch tool, you can bring it wherever you want.

As long as you place a Pale Oak Log above and below a Creaking Heart, a Creaking Mob will spawn at night. This is a fun way to mess with friends by hiding the setup for them to then be attacked by a Creaking at night. If you want to be extra mean, hide one of these in the house of a friend who doesn’t have Diamonds yet. Then surround the blocks with Obsidian to create an invincible nightmare every time night falls.

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Pale Oak Wood Set

Drab Yet Pleasing Lifeless Wood

A new wood type is always a great thing to see in the game, as wood is one of the most useful building blocks. The Pale Oak set is incredibly pretty and looks so pleasant as the first white wood type. The details of the monochrome wood stick out exceptionally well alongside any other block.

It feels like we have been waiting for this kind of wood for over a decade now. The white color allows for amazing build potential, especially with any darker wood or blocks. They suck the life out of our builds and make the Pale Oak Tree a must-have for any building lovers.

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The Pale Garden Biome

Your World Has Never Looked So Creepy

The main attraction of this update is the Pale Garden Biome. This rare Biome is a claustrophobic forest that causes the world around you to become duller. The sky above you turns gray as you step onto the moss-covered floor, and come night you will be embraced by darkness.

Having such a unique design with a creepy atmosphere, along with a set of self-contained blocks and features make the Pale Garden exciting for any player. You may only need to visit it once, however, as by taking a Pale Oak Sapling along with a Creaking Heart, you can turn any area into a portable Pale Garden with ease.

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The Creaking

Don’t Let It Out Of Your Sight

The Creaking is a unique mob that can only be found naturally in a Pale Garden. Spawning at nighttime, the Creaking will quickly hunt you down, unless you keep it in your eyesight. It will only attack you if it isn’t in your vision and cannot be harmed directly. Only by following the trail left after hitting it will you find the Creaking Heart block, which, when broken, destroys the Creaking.

After the addition of the Warden Mob and its sound mechanics, having another sense-based mob is wonderful and creates this fearful foe for players to encounter in the lifeless Biome. Modern Minecraft design is pushing what is possible in the game with elements we wouldn’t ever think could be made unless they were modded Mobs.

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Resin

Just Like Copper But Better

A surprisingly great addition comes in the form of the Resin Clumps. These can be smelted to craft a range of bright orange blocks that make interesting building blocks, especially when combined with other Pale Garden blocks. They can also be used as armor trim items to create a sharp orange trim the Copper wishes it had.

These Clumps can be collected by striking a Creaking which will cause the Creaking Heart to spread Resin Clumps on nearby Pale Oak Logs. By trapping a Creaking you can set up a Resin farm and use these detailed blocks to add extra color to your builds. The Clumps can even be put as decoration on any block, we can see you using them as a nice pebble pathway.